Developers can build 195 homes on the edge of a Leicestershire village after getting a council’s decision to refuse permission overturned.

Councillors rejected a scheme to build the homes on farmland off Seagrave Road in Sileby because of concerns over the impact of new traffic on existing homes, and possible odour from a nearby egg farm effecting the new residents.

However, Hallam Land Management and the Sketchley Trust have successfully persuaded a Government planning inspector to reverse the council’s refusal.

It means they are now free to start building on the 29 acre farmland site north of the village.

The planned homes near Sileby

After a two-part public inquiry, inspector Michael Hetherington decided to uphold the developers’ appeal and has ordered the council to pay their costs – a sum that has yet to be determined.

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Guy Longley, of Pegasus Planning, which represented the developers, said: “At the reconvened appeal, the council added further reasons for refusal relating to noise and odour impacts from the chicken farm, but the inspector accepted our consultant’s evidence that in this case the odour issue did not preclude development on the site.”

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What does the council say?

A spokesman for Charnwood Borough Council said: “The partial costs relate to one highways element of the appeal and a final figure has not been set.

“With regards to the comments about the five year land supply, this was not one of the reasons for the appeal being upheld and it is worth noting that following the publication of the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) last week, an initial assessment has been undertaken of the new approach to the five year housing land supply calculation and this assessment indicates that the borough has 5.93-year supply of deliverable housing sites.”